Tag: Indian Premier League
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“BCCI Registers New Constitution: A Move Closer To Implementing Lodha Recommendations Yet Far From It”
“The heart, kidney, lungs are being taken out of these reforms”- Justice RM Lodha (on implementation of the Lodha Committee recommendations by BCCI) The BCCI –Lodha saga has seen many interesting twists and turns in the recent past. The attempts at cleansing the maladministration of cricket in the country has given mixed results and received…
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Match Manipulation and Inadequacy of Indian Criminal Law
“The integrity of the game is everything” Peter Uberroth Sporting Integrity is one of the most controversial points of the current century. Issues such as doping, betting, gambling, match-manipulation have engulfed the sporting sphere. In India, the issue of match-fixing has sprung up time and again, highlighting the inadequacy of the current system of administration…
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A take on India’s emerging competition law jurisprudence:Deciphering India’s leading sports law cases (Part 2)
“Competition is the spice of sports, but if you make spice the whole meal, you will be sick” – George Leonard The above quote is an apt description of the relation of sports with both on filed competitiveness and competition law. Part 1 of this article explored the unique conceptual cross-roads of the application of…
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Demarcating a fine competitive balance: Exploring the monopolistic rationale of sports governing bodies in India (Part 1)
The business of sports is the ultimate competition. It is 7 x 24 x 365 x forever. Competition law and sports have always found themselves at interesting cross-roads. Starting from the landmark judgments in the Surinder Singh Barmi and Hockey India case to the recent Competition Commission of India orders pertaining to the All India…
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Surinder Singh Barmi v. BCCI : Analysis of the Competition Law principles
By Tejaswa Naswa (IVth year – National Law Institute University, Bhopal) The interface between sports and competition law has always interested the academicians and the professionals alike. In India one case which stands out for competition law analysis is Surinder Singh Barmi v BCCI. Our Guest Contributor Tejaswa Sood elaborately traces the development of the case and…
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The commercial handshake: Exploring the pervasiveness of IPL-IPR
By Rishika Mendiratta (Founder and Managing Editor at KhelAdhikar) The transition from Orwell’s interpretation of, “Sports is war minus shooting” to Andre Maurious’ description of, “Business is a combination of war and sport” encapsulates the present scenario of societal and commercial inter-linkages of the sports industry. In the Indian context, IPL is the best example…
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IPL’s Media Medallion leaves us STAR-STRUCK for 5 years
By Rishika Mendiratta (Co-founder and Managing Editor at KhelAdhikar Broadcasting is too serious a business to be left to the broadcasters-Tony Benn The above quote is an apt prelude to the events, speculations and the result that surrounded the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) media rights auction that concluded on September 4, 2017. Star secured the…
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